...Centenarians

A new study conducted by researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that many very old people, age 95 and older, could be poster children for bad health behavior with their smoking, drinking, poor diet, obesity and lack of exercise. They followed 477 Ashkenazi Jews between the ages of 95 and 112 found out that they nearly matched the control group in terms of the percentage who were overweight, exercised (or didn't exercise), or smoked. One woman, age 107, smoked for over 90 years. The researchers think that genes may have a part to do in this. With that being said just because your mother lived to be 103 does not necessarily mean you will live as long, genes are a game of chance. Also people now age 100 lived in an era when obesity was nearly nonexistent and when daily exercise such as walking down streets or up a few flights of steps was more common. Their food was cleaner, less additives and mostly all natural. So what does this mean for us? Nothing at all. We are going to die before 70 and we still will not receive any Social Security. Science cannot use the Bible but it says that if you honor your mother and father your days will be longer. Can you imagine how short the days of our immoral youth will be? Now we are all confused and I am giving these researchers a Digit Down for telling us things that a lot of us already knew.